CaseOther2016
Braidwood, IL, USA
Bright orange light/Dome- or Bulb-Shaped Craft.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-05-29
- Where
- Braidwood, IL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 41.265, -88.212 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-braidwood-il-2016-ecd894
Wave
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Braidwood, IL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 156 reports from Illinois.
- The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.